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WATCOMBE, near Watlington. An inquiry having been directed by the Pope to be made by the abbots of Missenden and Abingdon, R., the prior of Kenilworth , whether the abbot and convent of Preaux have erected a chapel at Wadcumbe, notwithstanding the prohibition of R., archbp. of Canterbury , and to execute a decree prohibiting divine offices being celebrated there if such should be the case; witnesses on the part of the abbot and convent of Oseney having been examined, an injunction is given to Richard de Eilesberi , deputy ("vice") of the archdeacon of Oxford to prohibit all such celebration in the chapel. (c. 1190.) .

WATLINGTON, Oxon. Judgment given in favour of Oseney by master John Cornwall , and master Robert de Melumer , in a tithe cause] between the abbot and canons of Oseney and Jordan de Hameldene , concerning the tithes of all the moveables which the same Jordan had in the parish of Watlinton, which he claims to be tithe-free on land held under the abbey of Preaux. Dated on the morrow after the synod celebrated about the feast of Michaelmas, 1192.

William, son of Helias de Hettecumbe , grants to the church and canons of Oseney, in frankalmoigne, three acres of land in Watlintone, viz. one acre near Wuestorn under the way, one acre above Ikenild between the two ways, and a croft which is to the east of Ferncroft, near the house of his mother, to hold to him and his heirs, paying annually 1/2 lb. cummin. (c. 1190-1200.) .

A certificate from A[dam], abbot of Evesham , and E., prior of Reading , addressed to W[alter], bp. of Lincoln , concerning a cause of vexation by the canons of Oseney to sir William, knight of Hameldene , relating to the tithes of Wadecumbe, by which they release the said knight from the vexation of the said canons. (1183-84.) .